I wonder if this is because, at the end of the day, it is still a tiny little camera with a small sensor and small lens, and so with none of the processing magic the image would look pretty terrible under most circumstancdes.
I wonder if this is because, at the end of the day, it is still a tiny little camera with a small sensor and small lens, and so with none of the processing magic the image would look pretty terrible under most circumstancdes.
Thats not to say processing isn’t part of it, but even $2k mirrorless cameras don’t record RAW video internally.
The sensors and lenses are small, and now processors are very fast. And as it turns out, the vast majority of people do not want photos or videos that are "accurate" or "real". They want ones that look good.
So, processing has been the name of the game. It's all about making an image people will like to look at, regardless of how different it is from reality.
However, most people would be horrified to see how noisy and unsharp the images from top cinema cameras are when most post-processing is disabled.